Hotel Babylon

by Anonymous and Imogen Edwards-Jones

ONE LINE SUMMARY: Anonymous, the manager of a five-star hotel, takes us behind the scenes of a luxury hotel in London.

This book is marketed and catalogued as non-fiction, but at about a page into this, I had to flip back to the spine to double-check that it did indeed have a non-fiction call number from the library. This book is written as an imaginary 24 hours in the life of a reservations clerk, and is supposedly based on actual events but fictionalized staff.

I would have preferred to read a real nonfiction book, and not one dressed up as fiction. The book is actually not that bad, but it took me at least halfway through the book before I could forget about how it was supposed to be nonfiction, and just enjoy it.

Posted by: Supersonic Jane | July 25, 2005 | 7:59 pm
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